A machine used to emulate reality or to escape reality all together. It is the saving grace of the post-modern childhoods, and some adult-hoods.
video game console e. g. (xbox, play station, gameboy, nintendo DS, sega dreamcast, virtual boy, r-zone, game com, gamecube, atari 2600, gamebuino, Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii, sega genesis...)
a computer designed specifically for playing video games.
uses compact discs as of late 1990s - currently.
some people try to compare wii to ps3/xbox 360 just because of graphics and they have no fucking life.
can sometimes be a timesuck.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)